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A former employee of the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, has confessed to embezzling over $1 million from the author’s estate. While many authors’ homes are under financial duress, the LA Timesnotes, most “are not systematically plundered."

You’ll never get a table at Dorsia, but the Harvard Club, Indochine, and the Four Seasons still take reservations: A New York City movie scout rounds up the real-life locations featured in American Pyscho.

Boosted largely by e-books, adult and YA fiction, the publishing industry is enjoying a revival, with book sales jumping 5.6 percent since 2008. “We’re seeing a resurgence, and we’re seeing it across all markets—trade, academic, professional,” a publishing executive tells the New York Times.